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However, for those below the level of state-level entities, whether they are large and medium-sized state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, or private tycoons, it is still not a problem to play with faster-than-light spaceships, and engage in some sub-lightspeed spaceships or something.

Moreover, the vast interstellar space, as well as the various resources widely existing in the cosmic starry sky, such as comets, scattered meteorite fragments, and asteroids that can be explored, are far less nutritious and valuable than ecological planets for the overall civilization of the earth.

However, these wealth, which are not at all visible in the eyes of the earth government, are still full of great attraction and sufficient profit margins for some non-governmental organizations and individuals.

And for these people, if they want to develop these resources that only exist in the starry sky and in the various margins of the star system, they don't need any faster-than-light spaceships, one or two sub-light-speed spaceships are enough.

And the sub-light speed spaceship, a technological product, is no longer unattainable for many people.

You must know that in this era, a whole powerful industrial system has been established in the process of building faster-than-light spaceships, and the various materials that can be produced each year are already innumerable.

And the ultimate scientific and technological creation of the faster-than-light spaceship, every part of it, every bit of raw material, is the most cutting-edge scientific and technological creation on the various branches of this powerful industrial system, which is the product of the real pyramid spire, the essence of the essence.

But one thing that must be known is that under normal circumstances, after all, the essence is only a minority, and in the process of producing the essence, the birth rate of dross is thousands of times that of the essence, which also exists in the manufacturing system of faster-than-light spaceships.

It can be said that while manufacturing a qualified faster-than-light spacecraft, all kinds of intermediate products, inferior components, unqualified metal plates, etc., that do not meet the standards for the use of faster-than-light spacecraft, are the most terminal, and the parts that meet the standards for the use of faster-than-light spacecraft are thousands of times and tens of thousands of times.

Today's earth civilization produces as many as 5 faster-than-light spaceships every year, and you can imagine how huge the stock of these intermediate products is.

And such a huge amount of industrial products is obviously impossible to waste.

After all, although these intermediate products and inferior products are substandard products when used as raw materials for faster-than-light spacecraft, they can be used in other places.

Just like in the 21st century, even if the deck steel of an aircraft carrier is already something that can be mass-produced, but the low-quality crude steel is still produced in hundreds of millions of tons every year.

Even if the crude steel is poor, you can't build high-rise buildings, you can't make high-speed rail, you can't make a vegetable pot, a kitchen knife, or something, it's always okay? Even if it's shoddy, you can't even make a kitchen knife, and you can always make a sword for fitness, right? If you really can't do it, you can always sell it as scrap iron, right? After all, smelted crude steel has a higher iron content than ore, and it's more useful, isn't it?

The same is true of the rules of the interstellar age, although faster-than-light ships have begun to run around the world, but the bicycle is still alive and kicking, and it seems that it will still survive for a long time.

After all, it is not the times that have developed, and everything that lags behind the times will be eliminated.

On a large scale, human beings have not used their feet to run and hunt for at least hundreds of thousands of years, and their feet are still well on human legs, and they have never been eliminated by the birth of new things such as horse-drawn carriages, automobiles, high-speed rail, and spaceships.

All kinds of materials and equipment that do not meet the standards for the construction of faster-than-light spaceships can naturally find their own sales in these technological products that lag behind faster-than-light spaceships.

Just like steel products, the best quality and best performing steel materials can be used in faster-than-light spacecraft, and the worst steel materials can still be used in some products that do not require high performance.

However, the essence of business, the essence of business, lies in the pursuit of maximizing profits, those manufacturers who originally intended to supply faster-than-light spacecraft, even if the raw materials they produce do not meet the standards for the use of faster-than-light spacecraft, but if they ask their products to supply bicycle manufacturers, it will be too difficult.

If you can't get on the inferior products of faster-than-light spaceships, it's still not a problem to make a sublight-speed spaceship or something.

The complexity and technological sophistication of the huge superluminal spaceship manufacturing system of the entire earth civilization are not known to exceed several orders of magnitude compared with the conventional sub-light spacecraft manufacturing system.

Even if the raw materials that are completely unqualified in the field of superluminal spaceship manufacturing, in the field of sub-light spaceship manufacturing, most of them are the best of the best, and it is normal to meet the use standards, and it is a strange thing to not meet the standards.

The various production materials of sub-light spaceships are not a problem at all in the higher-grade superluminal spacecraft manufacturing system, and I don't know how many sets of high-standard supporting materials can be made up casually.

And the various manufacturing enterprises that are specially prepared for the manufacture of faster-than-light spaceships are also inevitably a large number of eliminated manufacturers.

After all, how high the production requirements of faster-than-light spacecraft are, how strict the standards are, and how heavy the price is, it must be the best of the best manufacturers to directly participate in the supporting production system of faster-than-light spacecraft.

Correspondingly, behind a successful person, it is simply too easy to find about thirty or fifty losers and eliminators.

And these eliminated manufacturers, experts, and workers, they also have to eat, and if they can't get involved in the manufacture of faster-than-light spaceships, they can't go back to producing bicycles, right? Switching to the production of sub-lightspeed spaceships has undoubtedly become the best and wisest choice.

After all, this is already the thoroughfare of the great interstellar era, second only to the field of faster-than-light spacecraft manufacturing, and the market potential is huge, and the consumption is sufficient enough.

And for manufacturers who are accustomed to the difficulty of manufacturing a superluminal spaceship with overwhelming technical difficulties, the production of sub-light spaceships is definitely very lightweight, if not a piece of cake.

Unlike faster-than-light spaceships, there are too many difficulties in its production system, and even now it is still not within the reach of most manufacturers.

Let's just say that the faster-than-light space power engine, this kind of force field instrument that directly acts in the space field, is so difficult to produce that it has been civilized on the whole earth several times, and there are only three production units that have mastered a full set of production technologies, and these three companies are all core enterprises in the field of faster-than-light spacecraft manufacturing.

In addition, the external observation system, the faster-than-light communication system, the energy system, the armor and protective force field generation system, which sub-system has a very high technical content.

The manufacturing difficulty of sub-light spaceships is relatively simple, the manufacturing principle is simple, the production process is simple, and it is very simple to set up a production system.

The simplest sub-light spaceship, which even requires only one shell, is cobbled together with one engine. Of course, in this era, even the most rudimentary sub-light spaceship cannot use such a primitive version, and various subsystems such as communication, navigation, power, and life support are still necessary, but in any case, in terms of technical difficulty, this kind of spaceship cannot be compared with the manufacturing difficulty of faster-than-light spaceships.

Accustomed to the manufacture of faster-than-light spaceships, and then back to this industry, in terms of difficulty, there is almost no difficulty, even if you buy parts from the market, you can casually save a sub-light spaceship, nothing more than a little worse performance, a little higher cost, and once you focus on the production of sub-light spaceships, it is relatively easy to come up with results, and the speed of production molding can also be described as extremely fast.

People are of the same mind and the same reason, so a large number of manufacturers have switched to the production and manufacturing of sub-light spacecraft after the competition for the production of faster-than-light spaceships is hopeless.

Up to now, with the full strength of the entire earth civilization, there are hundreds of thousands of supporting manufacturers of faster-than-light spaceships, and only a production line of automated spaceships has been integrated, with an average annual output of five ships.

In the field of sub-light spacecraft production and manufacturing, the earth civilization has given birth to five production alliances, and although the related industrial chain is not as long as that of faster-than-light spacecraft, it is not inferior to the industrial chain of faster-than-light spacecraft in terms of depth and breadth.

Not only are millions of manufacturers directly providing raw materials and spare parts to the various production alliances of sub-light spacecraft, but tens of billions of people are directly or indirectly involved in the manufacturing and production process of sub-light spacecraft, and even some product suppliers of faster-than-light spacecraft directly supply some sub-light spacecraft manufacturing units.

In terms of production volume, the production capacity of sub-light speed ships is more than two orders of magnitude higher than that of faster-than-light ships, and the annual output is at least more than 1,000 ships.

After all, sub-light spaceships are not the same as faster-than-light spaceships in terms of the number of manufacturers and the difficulty of manufacturing.

As a useful supplement to the superluminal spacecraft in the interstellar era, the Earth official is also quite happy to see the development of sublightspeed spacecraft, and has implemented a series of incentive policies to encourage the public and private enterprises to carry out related interstellar exploration.

After all, the development of the interstellar era requires the participation of the whole people, and the civilian forces are undoubtedly too difficult to develop faster-than-light spacecraft, and there is no room for them to intervene in the operation of faster-than-light spacecraft, which is a matter at the level of military and national planning.

It is only in the sub-light speed field that there is room for civil forces to really exert their strengths.

After all, with the power of the state, to participate in the search and collection of trivial interstellar resources, the cost will be extremely high, and the official power is limited after all, and the limited manpower and material resources cannot be invested in this kind of work, only by mobilizing the broadest civil forces to open up these fields will it be profitable.

Those asteroid belts, comets, moons and other places in the star system that contain a lot of wealth and raw materials are all within the scope of sub-light spacecraft activities, and vigorously encouraging non-governmental forces to participate in the development and development of this area is undoubtedly in line with the interests of the entire earth's civilization, and can also release the people's power of the earth's civilization to the greatest extent and participate in the development of civilization.

After all, the interstellar resources that those folk tyrants have scavenged from the interstellar space still have to be traded and sold in the market after all, and the government can obtain relatively cheap resource subsidies for the production of various industrial categories, and can extract taxes from such transactions, which has many benefits, of course, it must be vigorously encouraged.

And civil society, after years of power accumulation, also has a considerable number of billionaires, enterprises, etc., eager to carry out the development and development of interstellar resources, after all, interstellar resources are ownerless, as long as you are lucky, drag back, you can make a lot of money in minutes, the national level does not look at this profit, for individuals and some enterprises, it is quite a nourishing meal, very tempting.

In short, in the development of resources in near-space and star systems, the private and official can be said to be a perfect match, followed by the increasing prosperity of the sub-light speed spacecraft field of the earth's civilization, with both production and sales.

After years of development, among all the civilian sub-light spaceships, only a small part of the sub-light spacecraft belong to the state-run type of small and medium-sized national capital, which belongs to various state-owned enterprises under each planet, while the remaining more than half of the sub-light spacecraft are all owned by private private enterprises.

In this special era of great interstellar navigation, in order to stimulate the people's concept of opening up the sea of stars and developing productive forces to the greatest extent, the earth civilization has divided all other resources into interstellar nearspace and star systems except for the belonging of planets and some specific satellites.

It is also in such a vigorous overall development trend, the huge population reserve of the earth's civilization, the earth's civilization has also successfully digested all the planetary achievements currently occupied, in addition to the core of the earth's civilization native solar system, the development momentum of other earth's star systems has also been unprecedentedly hot, and various interstellar resources have been rapidly developed and utilized. (To be continued.) )